Pencil-sharpener.



N0. 69|,I27. Patented Ian. I4, I902.

A. T. FOX.

PENCIL SHARPENER. (Applichtion filed June a, 1901.\

(No Model.)

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 691,127, dated January 14, 1902.

Application filed June 8, 1901.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AMOS T. Fox, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Tacoma, in the county of Pierce and State of Washington, have invented a new and Improved Pencil-Sharpener,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to pencil-sharpeners, and has for its purpose to so construct the device that it can be operated in like manner as a pair of scissors or shears and also so that a long or ashort point may be produced in a rapid and convenient manner without breaking the lead or unduly wasting the same and Without soiling the hands.

Another purpose of the invention is to construct a pencil-sharpener having pivotallyconnected body members, a pivoted pencilreceptacle, and an adjustable knife adapted to enter and to have movement in the pencilreceptacle.

The invention consists in the novel construction and-v combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the device. Fig. 2 is a plan view, and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The body of the device comprises two members A and B, which are pivotally connected at their forward ends by one or more pivotpins 10, the pivotal connection being such that the said members or sections A and B are capable of movement to and from each other. The member or section A is provided at its inner end with a handle 11, and the member or section B is provided at its inner end with a handle 12, and both of these handles 11 and 12 are preferably of loop form.

The member or sect-ion A, which is the upper member or section, is provided with a longitudinal slot 13, widened at its forward and its inner end, the forward end wall 1A of the slot 13 being curved downward and forward or given an inclination in such direction, as is illustrated in Fig. 1, while the inner or rear wider portion of the slot 13 is so formed as to produce shoulders 15, and at the bottom Serial No. 63,737. (No motlelfi central portion of the said slot 13 horizontal slideways 16 are produced, as is shown in Fig. 3. The shank 17 of the handle 11 belonging to the upper member or section A extends Within the rear enlargement of the slot 13, and such extension 18 of the shank 17 is threaded to receive a nut 19, the forward movement of the nut 19 being limited by engagement with the said shoulder 15.

The shank 20 of a knife 21 has movement in the slideways 16, and the knife 21 is at the forward end of the shank and is at an angle to the shank, being given more or less of a downward and forward or outward inclination, as is shown in Fig. 1.. The knife 21 is adjustably held in position on the upper section or member A of the device by means of a setscrew 22, which passes through the slot 13 and enters the shank of the knife, and when the knife has been adjusted the head of the set-screw will be in binding engagement with the upper face of the upper member or section A. The rear movement or adjustment of the knife 21. is limited by the adjustment of the nut 19 and the engagement of the inner or rear end of the shank of the knife with said nut.

The knife 21 is used in connection with a tubular pencil-holder O. This tubular pencil-holder O is preferably made of light metal and is provided at its rear, or that surface which faces the operator, with a curved slot 23, which exposes more or less of the interior of the pencil-holder, and this slot extends down from a point near the top of the pencilholder to a point near the bottom, and at the bottom of the pencil-holder a plug 24 is socured, which is of a soft materialfor example, soft metal-and the lower end of the pencil-holder is pivoted, by means of a pin 25, in a longitudinal slot 26, made in the lower member or section B of the body of the device, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so that when the two members A and B are operated the pencilholder 0 will conform to the movement of the said members. This pencil-holder G at its upper forward section is provided with a longitudinal slot 27, so that the pencil-holder may give to a greater or less extent to accommodate pencils 28 of different diameters and of different exterior shape. The knife 21 extends into the recessed portion 23 of the penless of the wood will be removed from the point end of the pencil.

In operation the pencil is passed into the pencil-holder G from the top. The knife 21 having been adjusted and set in adjustment, the knife will be brought in engagement with the wood of the pencil near the point, and when the adjustment is made the upper member or section A of the bodyis in its upper position. By carrying the upper member downward toward the lower member of the body the knife will cut or shave off more or less of the wood of the pencil, and owing to the pivotal relation of the two sections of the body and the curvature or inclination of the knife the greatest amount of wood removed will be at the lower end of the pencil. By turning the pencil and moving the upper member A of the body upward and downward the pencil may be given its desired point.

I It may here be stated that the pencil-holder extends up through the forward wider portion of the slot 13 in the upper member or section A and that the said upper section or memberA of the body has free movement relative to the pencil-holder.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A pencil-sharpener consisting of pivotally-connected body members having movement to and from each other, a pencil-holder pivoted to one body member, passing loosely through and having play in an opening in the opposing body member, whereby the pencilholder accommodates itself to the movement of the body members, the said pencil-holder having a longitudinal opening in one side, and a knife adjustably carried by the body member through which the pencil-holder extends, which knife extends at an angle downward to the slot in the pencil-holder, as described.

2. A pencil-sharpener, consisting of pivotally-connected body members, apencil-holder attached to one member, and passed through the other member of the body, the pencilholder having alongitudinal recess in one of its sides, and a knife having a downward and forward inclination, adj ustably carried by the member of the body through which the pencil-holder loosely passes, for the purpose specified.

3. A pencil-sharpener consisting of pivotally-connected slotted body members, each member having a handle attached thereto, a slotted and recessed pencil-holder attached in the slotted portion of one member and loosely passed through the slotted portion of the opposing member of the body, a knife adjustably mounted upon the body member through which the pencil-carrier is loosely passed, which knife extends within the penoil-holder, and means for limiting the adjustment of the knife, as and for the purpose described.

4. In a pencil-sharpener, the combination, with an upper and a lower slotted body member, the said body members being pivotally connected at their forward ends and provided with loop-handles at their inner ends, of a pencil-holder having a longitudinal recess in one of its sides, the said pencil-holder being pivotally mounted in the slotted portion of the lower member of the body, passing loosely through the slotted portion of the upper member of the body, a knife having an inclination downward and forward, and adapted to extend within the pencil-holder, the shank of the knife being movable upon the upper member of the body, a set-screw connected with the shank of the knife, and an adjusting-nut arranged to limit the end movement of the shank of the knife, for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AMOS '1. FOX.

Witnesses:

W. H. HARRIS, MARK BAILEY, Jr. 

